in America as throughout Europe, a sweeping reaction against speculative systems was the rule everywhere by 1820, even in romantic Germany, and it is very difficult to disentangle this overall trend (due only in part to Paris medicine) from the influence of those who went abroad. How would American medicine have been different if no American had gone abroad? And how much of the heavily-touted r...

Brevibacillus parabrevis (kindly provided by Mohamed Marahiel, Department of Biochemistry, Philipps-University Marburg), Photorhabdus luminescens laumondii TT01 (Leibniz-Institute-DSMZ; DSM-15139), Delftia acidovorans SPH-1 (Leibniz-Institute-DSMZ; DSM-39) and Escherichia coli BAP1 (kindly provided by Blaine Pfeifer, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Buffalo) were...

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